STEM Blog

The St. Louis School MATE (Marine Advanced Technology Education) team has been busy building their underwater robot for an April competition at Villanova University. The team has split the responsibilities into two teams, electrical and mechanical. The electrical team is working on circuits while the mechanical is focused on building the robot.  A huge “Thank You” to the coaches and parent volunteers who are making this opportunity possible for our students.

“The Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center was established with funding from the National Science Foundation in 1997. MATE’s mission is to use marine technology to inspire and challenge students to learn and creatively apply science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) to solving real-world problems in a way that strengthens critical thinking, collaboration, entrepreneurship, and innovation.” Learn more about MATE by visiting the link below: http://www.marinetech.org/

As a part of our Catholic Schools Week celebrations, we hosted our 5th Annual Family STEM Night this week and it was a blast! The Science Guys of Baltimore did not disappoint and the students loved learning about science in a fun and dynamic way. In our classroom activities we did some great team building while learning about electrical conductivity with LED critters, engineering with a balloon tower challenge, force and motion with catapults, and worked on building our creativity by making our own STEM Superheros!
A great big shout-out to our FIRST Lego League Teams: Buddy Bacon Builders and Harmless Hunters for presenting their skills to the crowd. Best of luck to Harmless Hunters who will be competing in their qualifier on Saturday Afternoon at APL.

CyberSTEM. Club members began building robots and started the planning process for programming and animating their actions this week. We look forward to seeing what our creative and capable engineers produce!

SLS takes 1st Place overall in the FIRST Lego League Competition!! Congratulations to this dedicated group of students and coaches! Thank you to the team sponsor Vanguard Orthodontics and Dr. Bonebreak for their support. Now we move on to states...Go Knights!

Congratulations to our 8th grade Math team who, under the leadership and instruction of Ms. Dottie Peterson took first place in the 43rd annual Our Lady of Good Counsel High School Math Competition! These students not only excelled as a team, placing first out of twelve schools, but several of our team members excelled personally, taking 1st, 2nd and 4th place out of all the students participating. We are extremely proud of this bright and hard-working group. Ms. Peterson remarked that she was even more nervous awaiting the results then when watching her beloved Steelers play! Congratulations all around!